ABSTRACT
In the United States and other NATO nations, such expressions as doctrine, strategy, tactics, military science, and military art may have very general meanings. In the 1920s and into the early 1930s, Soviet military theorists made detailed studies of war in its various forms. M. N. Tukhachcvskiy is generally considered the outstanding Soviet military commander and strategist of the 1930s. Military strategy, as carefully explained by Soviet spokesmen, occupies a subordinate position in relation to doctrine. The new doctrine announced by Khrushchev in January 1960 required a new military strategy. It probably is no accident that the very month in which Khrushchev made his doctrinal address, a highly classified version of Military Thought began publication of the Special Collection. Soviet military writers say that their strategy "is guided by the advanced scientific theory of Marxism-Leninism which allows the knowing and correct use of objective laws which determine victory in modern war."
